Curriculum Vitae for: Dr. James E. Strick Chair, Program in Science, Technology and Society Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604-3003 301-512-0976 E-Mail: [email protected]
Education Doctor of Philosophy, History, Princeton University, 1997 Dissertation Topic: “The British Spontaneous Generation Debates of 1860-1880: Medicine, Evolution and Laboratory Science in the Victorian Context” Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Gerald L. Geison
Master of Arts, History, Princeton University, 1993
Master of Science, Microbiology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1983
Bachelor of Science, Biology and Secondary Education, SUNY College at Cortland, 1981
Employment Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Franklin and Marshall College, 2002-2008; tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, spring 2008; promotion to full Professor, May 2015
Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Princeton University, Spring 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2001; Smithsonian Fellow, Fall 2000.
Assistant Professor, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, August 1998- Spring 2001 (on research leave, 2000-2001)
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, August 1996 - July 1998
Teaching Assistant, Program in History of Science, Princeton University, Spring 1996
Princeton Friends School, 1990-1994, Middle School General Science
Park School of Baltimore, 1987-1990, Sciences, Biomedical Ethics, Nuclear Issues, Science and Society
Instructor, Empire State College, Spring and Fall 1986, Introductory Ecology
Columbia Preparatory School, New York City, 1985-1987, Biology, Nuclear Issues, Science and Society
Hewitt School, New York City, 1983-1985, Biology, Chemistry
Grants and Fellowships CPC Mellon Grant for newly tenured faculty research, 2008-2009
Smithsonian Fellow, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2000
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for History of Recent Science, George Washington University, 2000-2001
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999-2001, with Steven J. Dick, grant for an historical study: “Birth of a New Science: the Exobiology Program in NASA”
Dibner Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Biology and Medicine, awarded by the History of Science Society, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, 1996-1997 and 1997-1998
National Science Foundation grant to fund research in US and British archives, 1994-1996
Schoen-Rene Memorial Fellowship for research affecting water quality, 1981-1982, and 1982- 1983 (first recipient twice so honored), at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Honors and Prizes Richardson lecture in history of psychiatry (invited), Cornell-Weill Medical College, New York, 19 October 2106
Bradley R. Dewey Distinguished Faculty Research Award, Franklin and Marshall College, May 2016, award lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKPvkguGSi8
Elected to History of Science Society Council, 2005-2008
Advisory Editor, Isis, 2005-2007
Invited co-organizer, 2005 Dibner History of Biology Workshop, MBL, Woods Hole, Mass.
Invited Speaker, AAAS Panel on the Social, Ethical and Philosophical Implications of Astrobiology, 21-23 Feb. 2003, Washington, DC (also a member of the workshop series)
SUNY College at Cortland, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar, April 2002
Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999-2000
Invited Keynote Lecturer on History of Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, May 1996, “Spontaneous Generation Controversies: What Can We Learn from Historical Studies?”
Henry and Ida Schuman Prize, History of Science Society, 1994, for outstanding graduate student research paper “Swimming Against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper and the Debate Over Bacterial Flagella”
Publications Books Wilhelm Reich, Biologist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2015) http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736092
Editor, The Origin of Life Debate: Molecules, Cells, and Generation, a six volume series reissuing the primary sources of the doctrine of “histological molecules,” from Buffon and Needham (1748) through 1880 (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004)
With Steven Dick, The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology, (Rutgers U. Press, 2004)
Sub-editor for “Evolution,” Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists, ed. Bernard Lightman (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004)
Editor, Evolution and the Spontaneous Generation Debate, a six volume series, reissuing the primary works of Henry Charlton Bastian and a selection of his critics (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2001)
Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000)
Documentary Film Interviews “Love, Work and Knowledge: The Life and Trials of Wilhelm Reich” (2018) http://loveworkknowledge.com
“How Life Began” (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270091/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
Articles in History of Science Essay Review: “Microscopy and Cell Biology: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now?,” British Journal for History of Science 52 (2019):
Essay review: “The Cycle of Life Concept: Soil Microbiology and Soil Science Restored to the History of Ecology,”Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48 (2014): 119-121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.08.009
“Exobiology at NASA: Incubator for the Gaia and Serial Endosymbiosis Theories,” in Bruce Clarke, ed., Earth, Life, and System: Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Evolution (Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2015), pp. 80-104
“Introduction,” The Works of Alfonso Herrera in Translation, H.J. Cleaves, ed. (New York: Springer, 2014)
“A History of Origin of Life Ideas from Darwin to NASA,” in Genesis—In the Beginning: Prebiotic Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution, Joseph Seckbach, ed. (New York: Springer, 2012), DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3657.2167
“Introduction,” Where Is the Truth?: Diaries and Letters, 1948-1957, Mary Higgins, ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
“Darwin and the Origin of Life: Public vs Private Science,” Endeavour (Dec. 2009) 33: 148-151
“Exobiology,” in Evolution: the First Four Billion Years, Michael Ruse and Joe Travis, eds. (Harvard U. Press, 2009)
“Definitions of Life and Debates on its Origin from Darwin to Freeman Dyson,” in E. McMullin, H. Morowitz, and J.W. Szostak, eds., Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives (Cambridge U. Press, 2009) https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806506.003
“Spontaneous Generation,” in Moselio Schaechter, ed., Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd ed., (New York: Academic Press, 2009)
“Wilhelm Reich as Laboratory Scientist, 1934-1939,” in Birgit Johler, ed., Wilhelm Reich Revisited (Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2007)
Entries in Noretta Koertge (editor-in-chief), The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 2007): Norman Horowitz Harold P. Klein H. Charlton Bastian
“Darwin and the Origin of Life: A Historical Perspective,” in C. Bertka, N. Roth, and M. Shindell, eds., Workshop Report: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Implications of Astrobiology (American Assoc. for Advancement of Science, 2007), 41-51
“Creating a Cosmic Discipline: The Crystallization and Consolidation of Exobiology, 1957- 1973,” J. of History of Biology 37: 131-180 (2004) see http://www.fefox.com/ARTICLES/Strick.pdf
“Louis Pasteur,” in John L. Heilbron, ed., Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Oxford, 2003)
“History of Microbiology,” in Brian Baigrie, ed., History of Modern Science and Mathematics (Scribners, 2002)
“Pasteur and Tyndall on Spontaneous Generation: The Role of Textbooks in Creating an Experimentum Crucis,” DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5016.2328 also www1.umn.edu/ships/updates/pasteur1.htm
“Henry Charlton Bastian,” in Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002)
“The Cambrian Explosion (of Books on Origin of Life): Essay Review,” Journal of History of Biology 33 (2000): 371-384
"Evolution of Microbiology as Seen in the Textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 72 (1999): 321-328
Foreword to Robert Koch: a Life in Medicine and Bacteriology by Thomas Brock (Washington, DC: American Society of Microbiology Press, 1999)
“Darwinism and the Origin of Life: the Role of H.C. Bastian in the British Spontaneous Generation Debates, 1868-1873,” J. Hist. Biol. 32 (1999): 51-92
“New Details Add to our Understanding of Spontaneous Generation Controversies,” ASM News (Amer. Soc. Microbiol.) 63 (1997): 193-198
“Swimming Against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper and the Debate Over Bacterial Flagella, 1946- 1956,” Isis 87 (1996): 274-305
Articles in Microbiology With J.R. Heckman, “Teaching Plant-Soil Relationships with Color Images of Rhizosphere pH,” Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 25 (1996): 13-17
With J.P. Nakas, “Calibration of a Microbial Sulfur Technique for Use in Forest Soils,” Soil Biology and Biochemistry 16 (1984): 289-291
With M.B. David, S.C. Schindler, and M.J. Mitchell, “Importance of Organic and Inorganic Sulfur to Mineralization Processes in a Forest Soil,” Soil Biol. Biochem. 15 (1983): 671-677
With S.C. Schindler, M.B. David, M.J. Mitchell, and J.P. Nakas, “Importance of Organic Sulfur Constituents and Microbial Activity to Sulfur Transformations in a Forest Soil,” Northeastern Environmental Science 1 (1982): 161-169
Opinion Pieces With Joe Karlesky and Richard Pepino, “Let the Restoration Begin,” Inside Higher Education, 5 March 2009, http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/05/karlesky
Book Reviews Biological Individuality: Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives ed. By Scott Lidgard and Lynn Nyhart. J. of Hist. of Biology 52 (2019):
Creatures Born of Mud and Slime by Daryn Lehoux, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2018)
A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, Books Cover to Cover (28 Aug. 2017) https://bookscover2cover.com/2017/08/a-crack-in-creation-the-new-power-to-control-evolution/
Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel Todes, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90: 344-345 (June 2016)
Astrobiology, History and Society: Life Beyond the Earth and the Impact of its Discovery ed. by Douglas Vakoch, J. of History of Astronomy (June 2016)
“Origin Stories,” Science 351: 131 (8 Jan. 2016)
Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons by Martin Willis, Annals of Science (2013)
Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch’s Medical Bacteriology by Christoph Gradmann, Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 44: 140-141 (March 2011)
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich, Isis 100 (2009): 949-950
Rene Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist by Carol Moberg, Science 311 (3 March 2006): 1243
Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the Microbial World by Charles Cockell, Endeavour (March 2005)
Life’s Origin: The Beginnings of Biological Evolution by J. William Schopf, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2003)
Things Come to Life: Spontaneous Generation Revisited by Henry Harris, Isis 94 (2003): 171- 172
Louis Pasteur by Patrice Debré and The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald Geison: Essay review, Ambix 49 (2002): 80-82
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada, Isis 93 (2002): 163-164
Microbial Musings by Debra Jan Bibel, J. Hist. Biol. 35 (2002): 203-204
Carl Sagan’s Universe, eds. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, Isis 92 (2001): 804-805
Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945- 1975 by Toby Appel, Science 293 (2001): 1052-1053
Many Faces, Many Microbes by Ronald M. Atlas, Endeavour 25 (2001): 88
Picture Control: the Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940- 1960 by Nicolas Rasmussen, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 28 (1998): 358
Life’s Splendid Drama by Peter Bowler, Metascience (n.s.) issue 12 (1997): 75-78
Presentations “Analysis of Reich’s The Function of the Orgasm, The Sexual Struggle of Youth, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, and The Cancer Biopathy,” seminar series at Centro Reichiano de México, Mexico City, 26 Jan.-3 Feb. 2019
“The Israel-Palestine Water Conflict,” guest lecture in Prof. Lloyd Ackert course “The Geopolitics of Water,” Drexel U., Philadelphia, 26 July 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKPvkguGSi8 17 October 2016
“Reich’s Energetic Functionalism and its Use as a Methodology in Science” and “Reich’s Bion Experiments in Historical Context,” talks at conference of Wilhelm Reich Gesellschaft, Berlin, 29-31 May 2015
“Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments and their Connection to His Theory of Cancer,” Dept. of Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Humboldt University, Berlin, 27 May 2015
“Wilhelm Reich and the US State Department,” talk at annual History of Science Society meeting, Boston, 23 Nov. 2013
“Reich’s Bion Experiments and the Use of Dialectical Materialist Philosophy in Life Sciences in the 1930s,” also “Darwin and the Darwinians Debate the Origin of Life,” Max Planck/Wellcome Institute Summer School in History of Life Sciences, Ischia, Italy, 3 July 2013
“Serial Endosymbiosis and Gaia Theories: NASA as Incubator and Multiple Cultural Valences,” invited talk at “Earth, Life, System” conference in honor of Lynn Margulis, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, 12-13 Sept. 2012
“Reich’s Bion Experiments and Countway Archives,” History of Medicine and Psychiatry Lecture Series, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 18 Nov. 2011.
“Serial Endosymbiosis Theory in the history of Cell Biology,” ASU-MBL History of Biology Workshop, Woods Hole, MA (with Lynn Margulis), 17 May 2011
“Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments, 1934-1939: An Unusual Origin of Life Research Program,” Washington U. of St. Louis History of Biology Seminar Series, 8 Oct. 2010
“Biosignatures, Cell Model Experiments, and Microscopy in the 1930s: Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 20 Nov. 2009
“Evidence from Archives and Laboratory Notebooks: Researching Reich’s Bion Experiments,” invited lecture at Wilhelm Reich Museum summer conference, 13 July 2009
“Darwin and the Origin of Life: Public vs Private Science,” NASA Ames Research Center lecture series, 12 March 2009.
“Lessons from the Living Cell: Stephen Rothman, Cell Biology and Electron Microscopy, 1967- 2007,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 4 Nov. 2007
“The History of Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis: from Exobiology to Neo-Darwinist Reactions” invited lecture at Conference on the Current State of Gaia Theory, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Va., 17 Oct 2006.
“Marxism, Sex and the Origin of Life: Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments, 1935-1939,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 4 Nov. 2005
“The Place of Wilhelm Reich’s Origin of Life Experiments in the History of Twentieth Century Biology and Medicine,” invited lecture at Wilhelm Reich Museum summer conference, 18 July 2005
“Darwin, the Darwinians, Cosmic Evolution and the Origin of Life,” Dibner Institute History of Astrobiology Workshop, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., 17 May 2005
“Life Is too Complex to be Captured in a Simple Formula: F.J. Allen’s BAAS Address, 1896,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 21 Nov. 2003
“Creating a Cosmic Discipline: The Crystallization and Consolidation of Exobiology, 1957- 1997,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, 8 November 2002.
“Darwin and the Darwinians Wrestle with the Origin of Life Problem,” Biology Dept. and Honors Lecture Series, Southampton College, Southampton, NY, 15 October 2001
“Darwin’s Strategy for Dealing with the Origin of Life Issue,” History Dept., The College of New Jersey, 5 April 2001
“Bacteria, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Reductionist Ideas about Life, 1933-1960,” History Dept., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, 2 April 2001
“The NASA Exobiology Program: Funding Interdisciplinary Research,” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Historical Seminar on Contemporary Science and Technology, 18 January 2001
“Early Days of Exobiology: Stanley Miller, Sidney Fox and the ‘Nucleic Acid Monopoly,’” History Dept., George Washington Univ., 15 December 2000
“Evolution and the Origin of Life: Tyndall, Bastian and Darwinian factional In-fighting,” History of Science Dept., Johns Hopkins U., 16 November 2000
“Cell Theory and the Origin of Life: H.C. Bastian’s Ideas, 1880-1915,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 4 November 2000
“NASA, the Cold War and Origin of Life Research, 1953-1972,” HSS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 1999
“W.H. Park and E.O. Jordan: Defining the Field of Bacteriology with Textbooks,” American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 1999
“Rising Young Darwinian Star: a New View of Henry Charlton Bastian,” HSS Annual Meeting, Kansas City, October 1998
“Huxley, Tyndall, and Urschleim: the Scientific Naturalists and Spontaneous Generation,” HSS Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 1997
“Purity and Contamination: the X Club Agenda and John Tyndall’s Campaign Against Spontaneous Generation, 1870-1878,” HSS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 1996
“Epistemological Issues in the Bacterial Flagella Controversy,” Dibner Seminar in History of Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, August 1996
“Pasteur and Tyndall on Spontaneous Generation: the Role of Biology Textbooks in Creating an Experimentum crucis,” HSS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, October 1995
“The Molecular Theory of Cell Structure: John Hughes Bennett’s Ideas, 1845-1875,” presented in session on Cell Theory at the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, July 1995
“John Tyndall’s Campaign Against H.C. Bastian and Spontaneous Generation,” presented at Royal Institution Center for History of Science and Technology, London, March 1995
“Swimming Against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper vs. Biological Electron Microscopy,” HSS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, October 1994
Journal and Proposal Referee Isis Science Die Naturwissenschaften Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the Royal Society of London International Microbiology (and editorial board) FEMS Microbiology Letters Journal of the History of Biology British Journal of History of Science History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Science in Context Harvard University Press American Society for Microbiology Press NASA History Office National Science Foundation, STS-Grants
Professional Workshop Participation Invited Presenter at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, on aims and methods in current history of science, 30 April 2001
Participant, joint ASU / University of Arizona Bioethics Workshop, Biosphere 2, May 2000
Participant, Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life, Ventura, CA, February 1999
Invited Participant, Dibner Workshop: “Pasteur, Germs, and the Bacteriological Laboratory,” Dibner Institute, November 1996
Courses Taught Franklin and Marshall College Environment and Human Values Scientific Revolutions History of Medicine The Darwinian Revolution Nuclear Weapons, Power and Waste Disposal Environmental History Sex, Lies and Bookburning Ind. readings: Social History of Tuberculosis Ind. senior thesis research supervisor
Princeton University Graduate seminar: The Darwinian Revolution Junior History of Biology and/or Medicine theses advisor
Johns Hopkins University History of Modern Biology History of Ideas About the Origin of Life
Arizona State University Biology and Society History of Biology Lives of Scientists: Scientific Biography and Autobiography Independent Study Advisor for Graduate Research Advisor to undergraduate Humanities Council Research Award Recipient Advisor for undergraduate Honors Thesis, Mentor for undergraduate tutors
Professional Affiliations & Service Isis Advisory Editor, 2005-2007 Member, Dissertation committee, Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University STS Program American Society for Microbiology, 1983-present; Archives Committee, 1997-present History of Science Society, 1987-present; HSS Council, 2005-2008; Levinson Prize Committee, 2006 Archives Committee, Wilhelm Reich Trust Sigma Xi, 1991-present American Association for History of Medicine, 1992-present British Society for History of Science, 1992-present International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, 1992-present International Society for Study of the Origin of Life, 1996-present
Professional Certifications High School and Middle School Sciences: Permanent New York State Certification for Secondary Level Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Science, 1984